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  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Ischemia-Free Liver Transplantation for Fatty Liver Grafts in Human

    W. Ju, S. Huang, Z. Guo, G. Chen, X. He.

    Organ Transplant Center, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.

    BACKGROUND&AIMS: Fatty liver diseases have led to a continuous increase of available donor livers containing fat. Fatty liver grafts were identified as an independent risk…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Human Pancreatic ECM Scaffolds for Islet Culture and Transplantation

    D. Tremmel, S. Sackett, A. Feeney, R. Maguire, J. Odorico.

    Univ of Wisconsin, Madison.

    Extracellular matrix (ECM) plays an important role through structural and biochemical interaction with cells. Tissue-specific ECM, attained through decellularization (decel), has been proposed in many…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Geographic Variation in Deceased Donor Kidney Waitlist Deaths after Declining an Organ Offer

    F. Winterhalter,1 S. Husain,1 R. Patzer,2 S. Pastan,2 S. Mohan.1

    1Department of Medicine/Nephrology, Columbia University, New York, NY; 2Department of Surgery, Emory University, Atlanta, GA; 3Department of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.

    Introduction: Despite the severe organ shortage, nearly 20% of all deceased donor kidneys procured in the United States are discarded annually. Wait times for kidney…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Landscape of Living Donor Kidney Transplantation with International Donors in the United States

    A. Thomas,1 M. Henderson,1 A. Shaffer,1 A. Massie,1 B. Koons,2 K. Lentine,3 D. Segev,1 F. Al Ammary.1

    1JHU, Baltimore; 2Villanova University, Villanova; 3SLU, St. Louis.

    International living kidney donors (LKDs) can donate to candidates listed in the US. Recently, concerns were raised that international LKD organ-recipients might not achieve the…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Assessment of a Discharge Transplant Knowledge Quiz and Its Impact on Outcomes in Liver Transplant Recipients

    H. Corbo, N. Patel, N. Pilch, C. Perez, J. Fleming, T. Harrison, J. Hardcopf, H. Meadows, B. O'Brien, J. McGillicuddy, P. Baliga, D. Taber.

    Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC.

    The aim of this study is to determine if transplant quiz scores given prior to discharge were predictive of known patient risk factors and if…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    A Propensity Matched Survival Analysis: Do Simultaneous Liver-Lung Transplant Recipients Need a Liver?

    K. Freischlag,1 B. Ezekian,2 P. Schroder,2 M. Mulvihill,2 S. Knechtle.2

    1School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC; 2Surgery, Duke University, Durham, NC.

    Objective: There is debate whether simultaneous lung-liver transplant (LLT) long-term outcomes warrant allocation of two organs to a single recipient. We hypothesized that LLT recipients…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Kidney Transplant Rejection is Associated with Robust and Prolonged Bioenergetic Reprogramming and Metabolic Maladaptation

    A. Zmijewska, J. Zmijewski, J. Chen, R. Mannon.

    Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL.

    Introduction: Metabolic plasticity and mitochondrial bioenergetic homeostasis are altered due to a organ ischemia. However, the impact of the alloimmune response on the allograft is…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Donor Derived Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC) Transmission Events 2008-2016: A Report of the OPTN Disease Transmission Advisory Committee (DTAC)

    M. Pavlakis, M. Michaels, S. Tlusty, N. Turgeon, G. Vece, C. Wolfe, R. Wood, M. Nalesnik.

    OPTN/UNOS, RCC Work Group.

    Background: RCC is the most common renal tumor reported to the OPTN and reviewed by DTAC for assessment of potential donor transmission. Organs with concern…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Assessment and Validation of Potential Predictors of Non-Adherence in Contemporary Kidney Transplant Recipients

    T. Harrison, C. Perez, N. Patel, H. Meadows, J. Fleming, N. Pilch, B. O'Brien, H. Corbo, J. Hardcopf, P. Baliga, D. DuBay, D. Taber.

    Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC.

    The aim of this study is to assess the associations between traditional proxies of medication non-adherence and graft outcomes in contemporary kidney transplant recipients (KTRs).Methods:…
  • 2018 American Transplant Congress

    Impact of Elevated PSA, and Prostate Cancer in ESRD on Time to Transplant, and Survival

    N. Sarabu,1 N. Schiltz,2 D. Hricik.1

    1University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH; 2Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH.

    Introduction: Despite concerns for over-diagnosis and over-treatment from prostate cancer screeening, transplant centers perform it. We studied effect of Elevated PSA, and Prostate cancer on…
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